re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 1:02 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Wy (602 messages posted) If you do a major deletion of files and folders, especially photos in the bmp format, which takes up ten times or more space than jpegs, then you'll be creating gaps in your hard drive. Those gaps can occur anywhere, even be found 98% into the defragmenting. It becomes especially acute if you hadn't done a defrag in quite a while, so there's a lot more to clean up and gaps to erase. And it becomes even more acute the bigger your hard drive is. Best way to deal with it is to run the Maintenance Wizard in Safe Mode. Restart your computer to go into Safe Mode [press F8 to get the menu as the computer begins to start up and before anything begins to load], select Safe Mode from the menu, then go into Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Maintenance Wizard, click on the latter and let it run. This will clean out your system, scan disk and defrag all at once and should do it more effectively and within the usual 40 minutes you cite. If you still experience a problem, I'd then check your system out for malwares or spywares that may be interfering. On Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 12:27 pm, Sue Smith wrote: >The last time I defragged my hard disc it took 36 hours. It kept telling me it >was 98 percent complete then went back to the beginning again, in the end I aborted >the process. It normally only takes about 40 minutes to complete. Can anyone >suggest why this should suddenly start to happen. I had recently deleted a lot >of photos and wonder if this had something to do with it. Can anyone suggest why >after 4 years my computer is behaving like this? > I am unable to disable the 'read only' box in Windows Explorer Properties on photoes >written to CD from memory card on my Apacer Steno CP200 which I want to maniuplate >in Photoshop. Can anyone help? Written in response to: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Sue Smith: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 12:27 pm) Responses to this message: re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Sue Smith: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 2:55 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Sue Smith: Wed, May 31, 2006, 12:27 pm) re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Wy: Wed, May 31, 2006, 1:02 pm) re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Sue Smith: Wed, May 31, 2006, 2:55 pm) re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (gewg_: Wed, May 31, 2006, 1:49 pm) re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Sue Smith: Wed, May 31, 2006, 3:05 pm) re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (C K: Wed, May 31, 2006, 3:30 pm) re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc -- ATTRIB on CD-R (gewg_: Wed, May 31, 2006, 4:07 pm) re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc -- ATTRIB on CD-R (Sue Smith: Thu, Jun 1, 2006, 12:55 am) re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (mike: Wed, May 31, 2006, 9:17 pm) re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Sue Smith: Thu, Jun 1, 2006, 12:47 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum